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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 December 1948Vol. XIX, No. 5

Tidal Waves Reported From

p. 93 · Read in the full issue

Rarotonga

Tidal wave conditions at Rarotonga, Cook Islands, probably due to a submarine disturbance, were re ported in a message received in Welling ton from the Resident Agent on the island, on November 25.

The disturbance around the Avarua Harbour reef caused the schooner Tahi tienne to break her moorings and she became a total loss on the west of the reef As a safety measure the Union Steam Ship Company’s launches and lighters were removed to the landward end of the wharf.